It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals color harmonics produced by special relationships or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

Being inexhaustible life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality.

The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality.

The actions we took in the aftermath of 9/11 were harsh but necessary and effective. These steps were fully sanctioned and carefully followed. The detention and interrogation of top terrorists like Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Faraj al-Libbi yielded breakthroughs which have kept this country safe.

People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

But neer the rose without the thorn.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

I don't have cable, and it's glorious.

I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.

I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

Unfortunately because of the variety of outlets for people to speak their minds on the Internet and that kind of thing, it's made the media in general more opinionated and there's more of a 'gotcha mentality' than real reporting.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

Marketing is telling the world you're a rock star. Content marketing is showing the world you are one.

Tis the nightthe night of the graves delight and the warlocks are at their play Ye think that without the wild winds shout but no it is theyit is they

Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have left us with $19 trillion in debt.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

There's no such thing as saying that we'll ever find the ultimate cause of stuff. We can only work to push our understanding one step further.